Alfred Percy Allsopp
Alfred Percy Allsopp (26 August 1861 – 22 February 1929)[1] was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician.
Allsopp was the sixth and youngest son of Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip[2] and Elizabeth Tongue.[3] Several of his brothers were active in politics.
He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton at a by-election in April 1887,[4] in the place of his oldest brother, Samuel, who had succeeded to the peerage on the death of their father.[5] He was re-elected in 1892,[6] and stood down from Parliament at the 1895 general election.[7]
Allsopp was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire in 1887.[8] He was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) in Worcestershire. He was Mayor of Worcester three times.[2][1]
Alfred entered the family business Samuel Allsopp & Sons, as a junior partner from 1883 to 1887.[9] He later became chairman of the company,[2] and oversaw its conversion into a Limited Company, and retired from the business in 1900[2] and then sold all his shares in the company.[9] He was also a director of the New Grand Hotel in Birmingham, of the Yolandi Mining Corporation Limited, and of Allsopp and Partners.[9]
He was made bankrupt in June 1914, after losses at Allsopp and Partners forced him to resort to moneylenders, and discharged from bankruptcy in 1920.[9]
References
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25695. p. 2324. 26 April 1887. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26311. p. 4311. 29 July 1892. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 25707. p. 3087. 7 June 1887. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
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External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Alfred Percy Allsopp
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Taunton 1887 – 1895 |
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- 1861 births
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- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1886–92
- UK MPs 1892–95
- Councillors in Worcestershire
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